The Onion's Irish-Heritage Timeline

This Irish-Heritage Timeline is probably more accurate than some Irish historians' versions of events (cough, Tim Pat Coogan, cough) and is definitely a lot funnier.
Hat tip Slugger. My screen cuts off at about 1950 and I only get a tantalising half glimpse of Frank McCourt's face. Perhaps that's part of the joke - us Irish are so miserable and with the rain in Limerick and all we can only afford half of McCourt's visage.